328–30

Conversation No. 328-30

Date: April 3, 1972
Time: 2:43 pm - 3:05 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with Rose Mary Woods.


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Ronald L. Ziegler entered at 2:45 pm.

Greetings

Woods left at 2:46 pm.

William P. Rogers
-Schedule
-Western Europe

Vietnam
-Press relations
-State Department
-Defense
-Robert J. McCloskey
-Support for the Administration’s position
-Communiqué
-Geneva Agreement of 1954
-Ziegler’s forthcoming press conference
-Henry A. Kissinger’s forthcoming meetings with John A. Scali, H. R. (“Bob”)
Haldeman and Ziegler
-White House involvement
-Disassociation
-Ziegler’s statements
-North Vietnamese offensive
-The President’s concerns
-Gerald L. Warren’s statement
-Ziegler’s forthcoming statement
-Points to make
-Review of situation
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-US reactions
-Bombing halt
-Geneva Agreement of 1954
-Understandings
-US reactions
-US ground forces
-Bombing
-The President’s comments
-US ground forces
-McCloskey’s previous statement
-Possibility of recommitment
-Handling of statement
-Ziegler’s statement
-Mccloskey
-US position on recommitment
-Kissinger’s assessment
-The President’s forthcoming announcement
&& -Formulation By Ziegler
-Speculation
-Loss Of Territory
-Press Reports, Assessment
-Advantages Of Attacker
-Scope Of Attack
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-Us Reaction
-Expectation
-A Statement From Saigon
-Us Evaluation
-Extent
-Ziegler’s Comment
-Day-To-Day Reports
-American Involvement
-Limitations
-Air Strikes
-Abrams
-Comments
-South Vietnamese Response
-Ziegler’s Statement


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ITT case
-Dita Beard
-Television appearance

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VIETNAM
-NORTH VIETNAMESE OFFENSIVE
-BREAK IN WEATHER
-PRESS REPORTS
-SOUTH VIETNAMESE PERFORMANCE
-WWII
-LOSS OF WAR BY GERMANS
-BRITISH LOSSES
-GERMAN OFFENSIVE
-FAILURE
-ANALOGY TO VIETNAM
-NORTH VIETNAM OFFENSIVE
-SOUTH VIETNAM RESISTANCE
-NEED TO HOLD LINE
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-GENERAL GOUGH IN WORLD WAR I


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Ziegler left at 3:05 pm